Almost certainly. The big problem is that you don't/can't know exactly
what SaveAs is doing because it's hard coded.
If you want to known and control the operation, use Print...
Art Campbell
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Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Fei Min Lorente
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, yes, Acrobat version 6.0 Pro. Sorry about that.
>
> So Art, if I understand you correctly, the job options for Save As might
> be different from the ones I get with Print to Adobe PDF?
>
> Fei Min
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Campbell [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Fei Min Lorente
> Subject: Re: Difference Between Save As and Print to Adobe PDF
>
> In addition to Fred's correct advice, you don't mention what version of
> Acrobat you're using. On the theory that you may have moved forward from
> the version that shipped with FM 7...
>
> According to Dov Isaacs, Adobe's PostScript, PDF, and Frame guru:
> "To be as clear as possible, the "save as PDF" feature of FrameMaker 7
> is not at all compatible with Acrobat 7, 8, or 9!"
>
> Specifically to the point of your question, SaveAs PDF uses a set of
> hard-wired job options that do a number of things that vary from FM
> version to FM version so you can skip a few steps setting up your own
> job options that are optimized for your work needs.
> I think it's better and more predictable to not use the automatic mode
> because it doesn't usually work well for me and it's next to impossible
> to trouble shoot.
>
> Art
>
> Art Campbell
> [email protected]
> "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
> and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
> No disclaimers
> apply.
> DoD 358
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Fred Ridder <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Fei Min Lorente wrote:
>>
>>> Now the question has come up about printing to Adobe PDF because
>>> that's what our automated process does through Mif2Go, and the
>>> suggestion came up that I should use the same method when I'm
>>> manually creating a PDF for testing. It's just a bit more
>>> inconvenient for me because it always saves the file in a default
>>> location (My Documents), so I have to move it after it's done.
>>
>>
>> This is not correct. You can actually set any default folder you want,
> or you can set it to always prompt you for the path and filename.
>>
>> >From Print Setup, click the Properties button next to the box where
> you set the Adobe PDF printer. Go to the Adobe PDF Settings tab and you
> will find a list box for Adobe PDF Output Folder.
>>
>> -Fred Ridder
>>
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